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When gully foyle awoke with nomad tattooed on his forehead, i expected him to make sort of a big deal about it. I expected the same when he found himself to be mated to Moria. Gully seems hell bent on seeking revenge on the Vorga, and wont let anything get in his way.- Elias Taoufik
1.pg.28. When Foyle is taken by the Scientific People their leader Joseph says Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of Holy Darwin. Most Scientific. I believe this means that the scientific people have accepted Foyle as one of their own because survival is the first rule of Darwin. -Taylor Vladic
Taylor- That is a great post. I think their opinion of Gully will change as they are around him more though.- G.Mill
I also agree with Taylor on this one! Since survival is the first rule of Darwin, Foyle has to be accepted by the scientists because they follow Darwin's ways and he has been surviving for a long time now. The great Tyler Slippy
2. pg. 28."...All faces were tattoed into devil masks; all brows had names blazoned across them." It seems as if this may be some sort of cult or something. I wonder what future things may arise in the story. Will they accept him or not? -taylor cashdollar,
2. pg. 30. "Yours. You are one of us, nomad. You must marry every month and beget many children. That will be scientific. But I am the first." Why does he have to marry every month and get many kids? Why can't he just stick with one wife?
I was curious about this passage too, but not in that sense. I was wondering why they thought it would be scientific. To try and answer your question though I will most likely be answering mine as well. They want everyone to marry someone different every month so that they will have many children. This will be scientific in the sense of probablility. For example: if a blue-eyed male married and had children with a brown-eyed female, what would be the result? I believe this was their way of studying genetics and physical traits. -Janelle Meadows
A: I absolutly agree with you on this janelle, but i think that they want him to marry different women every month so that they can build up their population. Then they will not have to marry their brother or sister or any of their cousins either. But I still don't understand why it would be scientific, i understand the probability thing and thats what I mostly think it is too. There could be other reasons that we do not know yet and will not know if he doesn't talk about that planet. Also everyone could have a different opinion on why they think it would be scientific to marry a different woman each month.--Jameson Holsinger :)
I thought the same as Jameson when i first read this passage. If the next generations of top scientists decided to plan out their population this way I'd probably go with it but I don't think they should have rushed Foyle into their lifestyle so quickly, especially when he was dazed and confused. OR! maybe the first scientists there had a different look on things and through the generations everything kind of changed and this is how they do things now. -Nathan Kovach
3. pg. 30. "...'Scientifically mated.' Moria said proudly. She pulled up the sleeve of her nightgown and showed him her arm. It was disfigured by four ugly slashes. 'I have been inoculated with somethin old, something new, somthing borrowed, something blue.'" - this grossed me out first of all. secondly, I had to look up the meaning of inoculated, which means to implant. So, I'm guessing they implanted the child perhaps? I wonder what the "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" that she had inoculated into her is. -taylor cashdollar.
3. pg. 29-30. It seems that everything that is happening to Foyle is happening when he is unconscious. He is taken, paired with a wife, and given another name all while he was unconscious. It seems like they're taking advantage of him. Nick Kratzer
I agree with Nick too. It seems like he just wakes up and has a wife that he didn't even pick and everything has changed including his name- Mara Hesley
I agree i don't think they really want him to know what they are doing or going to do to him. - Andrew Jackson
Nick, I completly agree with you. I don't think what Joseph and the other people of that nation did to poor Gully was horrible. I mean, the man has been drifting in space for a long period of time (a lifetime to Gully). How can Joseph be this mean to Gully. But on the other hand, these 'rituals' might have been teir way of welcoming Gully. Either way, Gully should have had a say in what they were doing to his body. -Heather Gibson
I also agree with nick but obviously that is the only way they can do anything to him when he is unconscious and vulnerable to everything. -Victor Lemus
4. "Experts have gauged every jaunt stage in the world to accomodate peak traffic. That's why private jaunte stages are small, and the Times Square stage is two hundred yards wide. It's all been worked out mathematically and there isn't one chance in ten million of a simultaneous arrival. That's less than your chance of being killed in a jet accident." I have a couple of observations about this. First: scientists have gauged every jaunt stage in the world.... thats a lot of jaunt stages. Second: I thought that they could jaunt wherever they wanted up to 1,000 miles away, I didnt think that they needed to use stages. Why is it impossible for 2 people to arrive at the same time? It isn't incredibly likely, but what if everyone jaunted to work and had to be there at the same time. I'm sure a couple of them would arrive at the same place as their coworkers. Wouldn't they? -Janelle Meadows
5. page 33. "It's coming back, man. Some of it. Jaunte. I couldn't jaunte on the Nomad, me." "What?" "I was off my head." "Man, you didn't have no head left, you." "I couldn't jaunte. I forgot how, is all. I forgot everything, me. Still I don't remember much. I-" He recoiled in terror as the orderly thrust the picture of a hideous tattooed face before him. It was a Maori mask. Cheeks, chin, nose, and eyelids were decorated with stripes and swirls. Across the brow was blazoned NOMAD. Foyle stared, then cried out in agony. The picture was a mirror. The face was his own.
I think that it was very rude that The Scientific People did all o this stuff to Gully while he was knocked out. What gives tem the right to put him in a house with a wife they made him chose and then ruin his life by tattooing that hideous mask on his face. That was not right for them to do. And if I were Gully in this situation, I would hate those people forever for doing all of that to me while I was knocked out. -Bobby Yohn
I agree with you Bobby. I mean what gives these people the right to do that to anyone? Maybe we should forcefully take all the tattoos off their face. I doubt they would appreciate it. They may think that they just changed his looks but i doubt Foyle ever looked at himself the same, or even thought about himself the same way. They didnt even ask him if he wanted that done. They also gave him a wife and expected him to accept her, and do what they say. I would be going after these people instead of the Vorga. -Kathryn Yacobucci
6. Page 28. "Cheeks, chin, nose, and eyelids were hideously tattooed like an acient Maori mask." This Section of the chapter interested me the most. I guess it was trying to imagine faces of random people with faces covered with thick black ink. Also, I think it's interesting how each person had their name tattooed on their forehead. I don't quite understand the purpose of this. The only explaination I can come up with is so the citizens can't confuse names. -Heather Gibson
I agree with you Heather. This part of the book as interested me the most. I really want to know why his wife had those slashes on her arm. I think it is just their culture like how chinese would bind their toes, maybe the tattoo their names, and put slashes on their arms._Paiton Nipps
I agree with Paiton that this section of the book is very interesting because it makes you wonder why she has those slashes on her arm and what is it suppossed to symbolize - Mara Hesley
I also agree with you Heather, This puzzled me also. I think that they do it so that they can get attention. It's very strange and awkward. Sam Ellis
7. Page 28. "he was in the greenhouse of the asteroid where plants were grown for fresh oxygen." this is so humorous to me! i can't seem to understand why they would need to expand the human race to other planets/asteriods/galaxies? I think it's interesting that they use plants to produce oxygen but if the plants are kept in greenhouses does the greenhouse supply the plants with enough carbon dioxide to allow the plants to undergo photosynthesis. and what is the sunlight like on this asteriod. are special spac suits required to prevent the humans from receiving extreme sunburns. i guess this part of the chapter just really made me try to picture the setting of the world gully foyle lives in. ~nicole dengler
8. Page 30 "Who you?" Foyle croaked, "Your wife, Nomad." "What?" "Your wife. You chose me, Nomad. We are gametes." "What?" "Scientifically mated" I didn't really get this. He was like awake and everything one minute and then the next he passed out, and then woke up and somehow had a wife? - Megan Fanella
I agree I dont understand how he picked a wife I thought he was passed out. I find it funny how she thinks its normal marry someone you dont even know ! -Kelsey Geesey
When Gully fainted his arm brushed against Moira so Joseph assumed he chose her as his mate. And I guess it's normal for their people to marry someone they don't know. That's probably what they were taught as they were raised. And plus it's all for science, so the purpose for breeding would not be for affection or to start family, but for experimentation. -Casey Pipetti
9. Page 33 "It's coming back, man. Some of it. Jaunte. I couldn't jaunte on the Nomad,me." I didnt get this, whenever he says Nomad, does he mean the ship or himself?-Erica Keim
He is talking about the ship and talking about himself jaunting.-Justin Skipper
10. If there is one thing i remember from astronomy class, it's that asteriods can't have an atmosphere so in my opinion some of the events are a little far fetched. The asteriod I'm refering to is the one the
scientific people have made a home on. -Nathan Kovach
Responce: Yes thats true but just because it doesnt have an atmospere doesnt mean they cant live on it. They could just have airlocked sections built on the planet to stay alive and as long as the asteriod is big enough to have a strong enough gravity they could still inhabit there. John Benton
Sorry Kov, going with john on this one, gotta think of stuff like star wars, cause this is obviously a fictional novel, so really anything goes-Michael Maher
To have gravity you need an atmosphere, so what's stopping their "airlocked sections" from floating off into space. All I know is that it doesn't make much sense to me. -Nathan Kovach
yeah i dont understand that either.-Damian Lascoli "King Kong"
It does seem hard for us to imagine, because it is in the future. I think they still should give us an explain on how they live on the asteroids. -Bryant Sell
I believe that all of you are right, but you just have to remember that this an science fiction book. -Justin Skipper
10. Page 30. It was disfigured by four ugly slashes. "I have been inoculated with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue." i think it's extremely weird how they just put slashes on the womens arm for there four wedding needs. I don't like that at all. - Jess Koch
11. Page 28. Across the brow was tattooed JOSEPH. The "O" in JOSEPH had a tiny arrow thrust up from the right shoulder, turning it into the symbol of Mars, used by scientists to designate male sex. I think it is weird that they put their name on their forehead. Plus with the arrows on all of the "O's" makes it really weird. I think they do it because it is just easier then saying your name to everyone. - Jess Koch
12. page 33. He recoiled in terror as the orderly thrust the picture of a hidious tattooed face before him. It was a maori mask. Cheeks, chin, nose, and eyelids were decorated with stripes and swirls. Across the brow was blazeoned NOMAD. Foyle stared, then cried out in agony. the picture was a mirror. the face was his own. this crosses me as a little weird that in the time that he was passed out they had time to tattoo his entirer face, but now anywhere he goes he will be reconized as one of them and i feel this will come into play later in the story. -Dustin Gardner
I would have cried out in agony to if I was Folyle. I agree I dont understand how you can tattoo someones entire face and them not wake up?-Kelsey Geesey
13. Pg. 29, A ten foot figure loomed up to the table. It was Joseph on stilts. He wore a surgical cap, a surgical mask, and a surgeons gown that hung from his shoulders to the floor ; I think that these people are completely crazy, they use people for science like they are animals. This describes when Joseph tatooes Foyle's face while he is unconscious, this basically shows how they are so wrapped up in their scientific study that they will go to any extent. Even to taking an unconcious man and making him into one of them because they think he is a scientific discovery. Melanie Brown
14. pg 28. Joseph took a pill and placed it in the bowl of a pipe, and smoked it. The Scientists sorta remind me of the Aztecs and Mayas with all of their rituals and stuff. Any Thoughts? -G.Mill
Yes, "G.Mill", I'll follow up with your thought. It's funny that you say it reminds you of the Aztecs and Mayans, because as I read this it made me think of the movie Apocalypto, and some of the methods that were used during that movie. -Cullen Schimminger
15.pg. 27. S.S. Nomad
16.pg. 29."Out of the darkness Vorga-T:1339 surged again and again, accelerating on a sunward course that burst through Foyle's blood and brians until he could not stop screaming silently for vengeance." I think this him blacking out or having a nightmare about having revenge on the Vorga-T:1339 due to the people on board that ship left him on the blown apart ship to die so they abandoned him and left him no hope.-Justin Skipper
17.Pg.31. "Got to get out of here, girl," Foyle mumbled. "Got business with a ship called Vorga. You dig me, girl? Going to ram out in this boat, is all." I belive he thinks that this is personal between him and the ship and he doesn't want anyone in his way so he can preform this task of destroying Vorga for the damage that it has done to him by abandoning him. So this gives him hope.- Justin Skipper
18.Pg.29 "They strapped Folyle down on the operation table while he raved and rambled. They fed him. They shaved and bathed him." I dont understand why Foyle is raving and rambling whenever all The Scientific People are trying to do for him is help him. -Kelsey Geesey
Well, i looked at all the struggling from Foyle as him not being completely sure of the Scientific People. If they live on an astroid, choose not to leave, tattoo their foreheads and live in old yahts from centries ago, i'm not so sure i would be sure of them either. I think that the author wants you to automatically think that they are strange people the way he discribes them, and Foyle struggles because he knows that they are not normal living people. - Chynna Herman
19. Pg. 32 "A sqeal of metal began. Then the launch grated forward. Metal, stone, and glass split asunder and the ship burst out of the asteroid space." I thought it was really creative of Foyle to even attempt to restart the centuries old engine, many would never think of doing so. I think this shows the potential of what he could do in the future to further his revenge on the Vorga. It also brings up the idea again that all it took was one thing to push him to use all of the abilites that he had but never used. - Chynna Herman
20. Page 30 I was very confused with the part whenever he woke up and Moira was on the bed. Sam Ellis
21. pgs 28-29 - I liked how the scientific people spell their names with the gender symbolds and i like how they have their names tattooed on them. This just goes back to the prologue when he say's about it being an age of extremes and freaks. THIS is what he's reffering to. -Kayla Knisley
22. Pg. 28-29 "Quant Suff!" the crowd bellowed. Why do they chant that every time Joseph speaks? What does it even mean? If I had to guess, I'd say it stands for Quantity Sufficient? But that still doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe I'm not reading deep enough into it... -Casey Pipetti
23. Casey- I know exacly what you mean! Like I am not fully understanding that concept either. My guess is that it is just another weird thing the scientific people do because they already prove to have weird ways of doing things. One example would be the whole marriage thing which people have already discussed, the tatooing also which is interesting and I would love to know why they do that and now we are here with the whole "Quant Suff" stuff...I dont know. -Marissa Kosko-Blyler
24. Well Sam to answer your question because I was going to bring this up anyway..it is just something weird they do, meaning the scientific people. Its part of their culture where they choose their wives, except if I understood it right than they choose a different one each month? Though I would like to know what it means about the slashes in her arms. Do they like slash her each time she marries someone new? Is it even a slash? I am kind of confused on that part.-Marissa Kosko-Blyler
On page 28, it says, " 'How long did you drift?' Joseph asked. 'Vorga,' Foyle mumbled." It seems like Foyle is holding a grudge against Vorga for not stopping to rescue him. I would have expected him to have mentioned other people/things he held grudges against, like whoever or whatever caused him to be in this mess in the first place. - Julie Carney
I am not really sure about this so I will just ask on here hoping for an explanation , because he got the tattoo on his face would that make him like a weirdo to people that arent on that asteroid? Because we have cultures like Indians that do that and most people would think they were weird who wernt in that cutler so yeah can anyone answer that? -Cory Burchfield
Pg. 30 "The was in bed. The girl, Moira, was in bed with him. " How does Gully Foyle just fall asleep then wakes up and all of a sudden has a wife. I don't fully understand this.
When gully foyle awoke with nomad tattooed on his forehead, i expected him to make sort of a big deal about it. I expected the same when he found himself to be mated to Moria. Gully seems hell bent on seeking revenge on the Vorga, and wont let anything get in his way.- Elias Taoufik
1.pg.28. When Foyle is taken by the Scientific People their leader Joseph says Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of Holy Darwin. Most Scientific. I believe this means that the scientific people have accepted Foyle as one of their own because survival is the first rule of Darwin. -Taylor Vladic
Taylor- That is a great post. I think their opinion of Gully will change as they are around him more though.- G.Mill
I also agree with Taylor on this one! Since survival is the first rule of Darwin, Foyle has to be accepted by the scientists because they follow Darwin's ways and he has been surviving for a long time now. The great Tyler Slippy
2. pg. 28."...All faces were tattoed into devil masks; all brows had names blazoned across them." It seems as if this may be some sort of cult or something. I wonder what future things may arise in the story. Will they accept him or not? -taylor cashdollar,
2. pg. 30. "Yours. You are one of us, nomad. You must marry every month and beget many children. That will be scientific. But I am the first." Why does he have to marry every month and get many kids? Why can't he just stick with one wife?
I was curious about this passage too, but not in that sense. I was wondering why they thought it would be scientific. To try and answer your question though I will most likely be answering mine as well. They want everyone to marry someone different every month so that they will have many children. This will be scientific in the sense of probablility. For example: if a blue-eyed male married and had children with a brown-eyed female, what would be the result? I believe this was their way of studying genetics and physical traits. -Janelle Meadows
A: I absolutly agree with you on this janelle, but i think that they want him to marry different women every month so that they can build up their population. Then they will not have to marry their brother or sister or any of their cousins either. But I still don't understand why it would be scientific, i understand the probability thing and thats what I mostly think it is too. There could be other reasons that we do not know yet and will not know if he doesn't talk about that planet. Also everyone could have a different opinion on why they think it would be scientific to marry a different woman each month.--Jameson Holsinger :)
I thought the same as Jameson when i first read this passage. If the next generations of top scientists decided to plan out their population this way I'd probably go with it but I don't think they should have rushed Foyle into their lifestyle so quickly, especially when he was dazed and confused. OR! maybe the first scientists there had a different look on things and through the generations everything kind of changed and this is how they do things now. -Nathan Kovach
3. pg. 30. "...'Scientifically mated.' Moria said proudly. She pulled up the sleeve of her nightgown and showed him her arm. It was disfigured by four ugly slashes. 'I have been inoculated with somethin old, something new, somthing borrowed, something blue.'" - this grossed me out first of all. secondly, I had to look up the meaning of inoculated, which means to implant. So, I'm guessing they implanted the child perhaps? I wonder what the "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" that she had inoculated into her is. -taylor cashdollar.
3. pg. 29-30. It seems that everything that is happening to Foyle is happening when he is unconscious. He is taken, paired with a wife, and given another name all while he was unconscious. It seems like they're taking advantage of him. Nick Kratzer
I agree with Nick too. It seems like he just wakes up and has a wife that he didn't even pick and everything has changed including his name- Mara Hesley
I agree i don't think they really want him to know what they are doing or going to do to him. - Andrew Jackson
Nick, I completly agree with you. I don't think what Joseph and the other people of that nation did to poor Gully was horrible. I mean, the man has been drifting in space for a long period of time (a lifetime to Gully). How can Joseph be this mean to Gully. But on the other hand, these 'rituals' might have been teir way of welcoming Gully. Either way, Gully should have had a say in what they were doing to his body. -Heather Gibson
I also agree with nick but obviously that is the only way they can do anything to him when he is unconscious and vulnerable to everything. -Victor Lemus
4. "Experts have gauged every jaunt stage in the world to accomodate peak traffic. That's why private jaunte stages are small, and the Times Square stage is two hundred yards wide. It's all been worked out mathematically and there isn't one chance in ten million of a simultaneous arrival. That's less than your chance of being killed in a jet accident." I have a couple of observations about this. First: scientists have gauged every jaunt stage in the world.... thats a lot of jaunt stages. Second: I thought that they could jaunt wherever they wanted up to 1,000 miles away, I didnt think that they needed to use stages. Why is it impossible for 2 people to arrive at the same time? It isn't incredibly likely, but what if everyone jaunted to work and had to be there at the same time. I'm sure a couple of them would arrive at the same place as their coworkers. Wouldn't they? -Janelle Meadows
5. page 33. "It's coming back, man. Some of it. Jaunte. I couldn't jaunte on the Nomad, me." "What?" "I was off my head." "Man, you didn't have no head left, you." "I couldn't jaunte. I forgot how, is all. I forgot everything, me. Still I don't remember much. I-" He recoiled in terror as the orderly thrust the picture of a hideous tattooed face before him. It was a Maori mask. Cheeks, chin, nose, and eyelids were decorated with stripes and swirls. Across the brow was blazoned NOMAD. Foyle stared, then cried out in agony. The picture was a mirror. The face was his own.
I think that it was very rude that The Scientific People did all o this stuff to Gully while he was knocked out. What gives tem the right to put him in a house with a wife they made him chose and then ruin his life by tattooing that hideous mask on his face. That was not right for them to do. And if I were Gully in this situation, I would hate those people forever for doing all of that to me while I was knocked out. -Bobby Yohn
I agree with you Bobby. I mean what gives these people the right to do that to anyone? Maybe we should forcefully take all the tattoos off their face. I doubt they would appreciate it. They may think that they just changed his looks but i doubt Foyle ever looked at himself the same, or even thought about himself the same way. They didnt even ask him if he wanted that done. They also gave him a wife and expected him to accept her, and do what they say. I would be going after these people instead of the Vorga. -Kathryn Yacobucci
6. Page 28. "Cheeks, chin, nose, and eyelids were hideously tattooed like an acient Maori mask." This Section of the chapter interested me the most. I guess it was trying to imagine faces of random people with faces covered with thick black ink. Also, I think it's interesting how each person had their name tattooed on their forehead. I don't quite understand the purpose of this. The only explaination I can come up with is so the citizens can't confuse names. -Heather Gibson
I agree with you Heather. This part of the book as interested me the most. I really want to know why his wife had those slashes on her arm. I think it is just their culture like how chinese would bind their toes, maybe the tattoo their names, and put slashes on their arms._Paiton Nipps
I agree with Paiton that this section of the book is very interesting because it makes you wonder why she has those slashes on her arm and what is it suppossed to symbolize - Mara Hesley
I also agree with you Heather, This puzzled me also. I think that they do it so that they can get attention. It's very strange and awkward. Sam Ellis
7. Page 28. "he was in the greenhouse of the asteroid where plants were grown for fresh oxygen." this is so humorous to me! i can't seem to understand why they would need to expand the human race to other planets/asteriods/galaxies? I think it's interesting that they use plants to produce oxygen but if the plants are kept in greenhouses does the greenhouse supply the plants with enough carbon dioxide to allow the plants to undergo photosynthesis. and what is the sunlight like on this asteriod. are special spac suits required to prevent the humans from receiving extreme sunburns. i guess this part of the chapter just really made me try to picture the setting of the world gully foyle lives in. ~nicole dengler
8. Page 30 "Who you?" Foyle croaked, "Your wife, Nomad." "What?" "Your wife. You chose me, Nomad. We are gametes." "What?" "Scientifically mated" I didn't really get this. He was like awake and everything one minute and then the next he passed out, and then woke up and somehow had a wife? - Megan Fanella
I agree I dont understand how he picked a wife I thought he was passed out. I find it funny how she thinks its normal marry someone you dont even know ! -Kelsey Geesey
When Gully fainted his arm brushed against Moira so Joseph assumed he chose her as his mate. And I guess it's normal for their people to marry someone they don't know. That's probably what they were taught as they were raised. And plus it's all for science, so the purpose for breeding would not be for affection or to start family, but for experimentation. -Casey Pipetti
9. Page 33 "It's coming back, man. Some of it. Jaunte. I couldn't jaunte on the Nomad,me." I didnt get this, whenever he says Nomad, does he mean the ship or himself?-Erica Keim
He is talking about the ship and talking about himself jaunting.-Justin Skipper
10. If there is one thing i remember from astronomy class, it's that asteriods can't have an atmosphere so in my opinion some of the events are a little far fetched. The asteriod I'm refering to is the one the
scientific people have made a home on. -Nathan Kovach
Responce: Yes thats true but just because it doesnt have an atmospere doesnt mean they cant live on it. They could just have airlocked sections built on the planet to stay alive and as long as the asteriod is big enough to have a strong enough gravity they could still inhabit there. John Benton
Sorry Kov, going with john on this one, gotta think of stuff like star wars, cause this is obviously a fictional novel, so really anything goes-Michael Maher
To have gravity you need an atmosphere, so what's stopping their "airlocked sections" from floating off into space. All I know is that it doesn't make much sense to me. -Nathan Kovach
yeah i dont understand that either.-Damian Lascoli "King Kong"
It does seem hard for us to imagine, because it is in the future. I think they still should give us an explain on how they live on the asteroids. -Bryant Sell
I believe that all of you are right, but you just have to remember that this an science fiction book. -Justin Skipper
10. Page 30. It was disfigured by four ugly slashes. "I have been inoculated with something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue." i think it's extremely weird how they just put slashes on the womens arm for there four wedding needs. I don't like that at all. - Jess Koch
11. Page 28. Across the brow was tattooed JOSEPH. The "O" in JOSEPH had a tiny arrow thrust up from the right shoulder, turning it into the symbol of Mars, used by scientists to designate male sex. I think it is weird that they put their name on their forehead. Plus with the arrows on all of the "O's" makes it really weird. I think they do it because it is just easier then saying your name to everyone. - Jess Koch
12. page 33. He recoiled in terror as the orderly thrust the picture of a hidious tattooed face before him. It was a maori mask. Cheeks, chin, nose, and eyelids were decorated with stripes and swirls. Across the brow was blazeoned NOMAD. Foyle stared, then cried out in agony. the picture was a mirror. the face was his own. this crosses me as a little weird that in the time that he was passed out they had time to tattoo his entirer face, but now anywhere he goes he will be reconized as one of them and i feel this will come into play later in the story. -Dustin Gardner
I would have cried out in agony to if I was Folyle. I agree I dont understand how you can tattoo someones entire face and them not wake up?-Kelsey Geesey
13. Pg. 29, A ten foot figure loomed up to the table. It was Joseph on stilts. He wore a surgical cap, a surgical mask, and a surgeons gown that hung from his shoulders to the floor ; I think that these people are completely crazy, they use people for science like they are animals. This describes when Joseph tatooes Foyle's face while he is unconscious, this basically shows how they are so wrapped up in their scientific study that they will go to any extent. Even to taking an unconcious man and making him into one of them because they think he is a scientific discovery. Melanie Brown
14. pg 28. Joseph took a pill and placed it in the bowl of a pipe, and smoked it. The Scientists sorta remind me of the Aztecs and Mayas with all of their rituals and stuff. Any Thoughts? -G.Mill
Yes, "G.Mill", I'll follow up with your thought. It's funny that you say it reminds you of the Aztecs and Mayans, because as I read this it made me think of the movie Apocalypto, and some of the methods that were used during that movie. -Cullen Schimminger
15.pg. 27. S.S. Nomad
16.pg. 29."Out of the darkness Vorga-T:1339 surged again and again, accelerating on a sunward course that burst through Foyle's blood and brians until he could not stop screaming silently for vengeance." I think this him blacking out or having a nightmare about having revenge on the Vorga-T:1339 due to the people on board that ship left him on the blown apart ship to die so they abandoned him and left him no hope.-Justin Skipper
17.Pg.31. "Got to get out of here, girl," Foyle mumbled. "Got business with a ship called Vorga. You dig me, girl? Going to ram out in this boat, is all." I belive he thinks that this is personal between him and the ship and he doesn't want anyone in his way so he can preform this task of destroying Vorga for the damage that it has done to him by abandoning him. So this gives him hope.- Justin Skipper
18.Pg.29 "They strapped Folyle down on the operation table while he raved and rambled. They fed him. They shaved and bathed him." I dont understand why Foyle is raving and rambling whenever all The Scientific People are trying to do for him is help him. -Kelsey Geesey
Well, i looked at all the struggling from Foyle as him not being completely sure of the Scientific People. If they live on an astroid, choose not to leave, tattoo their foreheads and live in old yahts from centries ago, i'm not so sure i would be sure of them either. I think that the author wants you to automatically think that they are strange people the way he discribes them, and Foyle struggles because he knows that they are not normal living people. - Chynna Herman
19. Pg. 32 "A sqeal of metal began. Then the launch grated forward. Metal, stone, and glass split asunder and the ship burst out of the asteroid space." I thought it was really creative of Foyle to even attempt to restart the centuries old engine, many would never think of doing so. I think this shows the potential of what he could do in the future to further his revenge on the Vorga. It also brings up the idea again that all it took was one thing to push him to use all of the abilites that he had but never used. - Chynna Herman
20. Page 30 I was very confused with the part whenever he woke up and Moira was on the bed. Sam Ellis
21. pgs 28-29 - I liked how the scientific people spell their names with the gender symbolds and i like how they have their names tattooed on them. This just goes back to the prologue when he say's about it being an age of extremes and freaks. THIS is what he's reffering to. -Kayla Knisley
22. Pg. 28-29 "Quant Suff!" the crowd bellowed. Why do they chant that every time Joseph speaks? What does it even mean? If I had to guess, I'd say it stands for Quantity Sufficient? But that still doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe I'm not reading deep enough into it... -Casey Pipetti
23. Casey- I know exacly what you mean! Like I am not fully understanding that concept either. My guess is that it is just another weird thing the scientific people do because they already prove to have weird ways of doing things. One example would be the whole marriage thing which people have already discussed, the tatooing also which is interesting and I would love to know why they do that and now we are here with the whole "Quant Suff" stuff...I dont know. -Marissa Kosko-Blyler
24. Well Sam to answer your question because I was going to bring this up anyway..it is just something weird they do, meaning the scientific people. Its part of their culture where they choose their wives, except if I understood it right than they choose a different one each month? Though I would like to know what it means about the slashes in her arms. Do they like slash her each time she marries someone new? Is it even a slash? I am kind of confused on that part.-Marissa Kosko-Blyler
On page 28, it says, " 'How long did you drift?' Joseph asked. 'Vorga,' Foyle mumbled." It seems like Foyle is holding a grudge against Vorga for not stopping to rescue him. I would have expected him to have mentioned other people/things he held grudges against, like whoever or whatever caused him to be in this mess in the first place. - Julie Carney
I am not really sure about this so I will just ask on here hoping for an explanation , because he got the tattoo on his face would that make him like a weirdo to people that arent on that asteroid? Because we have cultures like Indians that do that and most people would think they were weird who wernt in that cutler so yeah can anyone answer that? -Cory Burchfield
Pg. 30 "The was in bed. The girl, Moira, was in bed with him. " How does Gully Foyle just fall asleep then wakes up and all of a sudden has a wife. I don't fully understand this.